Spring Break Fun

The kids have been out of school all week and the beginning of the week was beautiful weather! We went up Provo Canyon one day to play.

The kids brought bikes and scooters to ride around the park. Brad went up and down the hills over and over on his scooter.

The kids loved playing in the river. Usually it is raging this time of year, but it wasn't today.

Ellie is the brave one in this family of men! She walked across the river which came up to her bumb and none of her brothers would even try to cross. She is awesome!!

The kids had so much fun in the sun this week. We have had no less than 2 water fights a day and sprinklers on the trampoline. They were in heaven. It was boy central at our house with all the neighbor boys over to have water gun wars. I love days like these, despite the mess it creates, I love watching all the kids have fun in the sun!

Brax, Burke, Max and Jason. They had so much fun together! Brax and Burke were thrilled to have Max over, as we don't see him very often anymore!

EASTER

I love Easter! This is one of my favorite times of the year. The candy is yummier I swear because the colors are so pretty!

I didn't get a picture of my kids in their church clothes this year, things are to crazy before church for that! This was after the kids found all of their eggs in the backyard, love the morning hair and faces!

I made resurrection rolls for breakfast this year. We read the story of Easter in the bible and then we ate our rolls. You put marshmallows in the dough that have been dipped in brown sugar and cinnamon and then as the cook it melts and rolls are empty when you open them, like the tomb. It was a great object lesson, and they were so, so yummy!

We went to the Orem City egg hunt on Saturday morning. There were so many people there, but the kids had fun rushing out to get their eggs. It was freezing cold, but we made it!!

Major Catch Up!!

So I'm finally catching up for the last couple of months that have seemed so busy!

Burke had a big project called a wax museum. He had to choose a famous person from history and write a report and make a poster about that person. He chose Davy Crockett and he had a whole spiel to say when people stopped by his station. Let me just say that I loathe school projects! This one was okay, but honestly what is the point? I know I''m a bad mom, but facts are facts!!

The boys had their space derby in March. They made rockets instead of pinewood derby cars and it was really fun. The leaders had a whole thing rigged up to fly the rockets on. The boys loved it!!

Brad loved his St. Paddy's day party. He was all smiles when he came out of class. Such a cutie!!

MOLLY'S FAMILY CAME TO VISIT!!
My sister Molly and her family came from Missouri for their spring break. It was so fun to have them stay for a week!

All the cousin's had so much fun on the trampoline. It's a miracle no one got hurt with all he kids that were on there. This is Josie,

Lily,

and Marlee. We loved getting to know Marlee better and loved having her spunky personality!

These are both Zach and Brad. They just happened to got together. These boys crack me up. Add Molly's Cooper who is only 1 month younger than Zach and it was a constant party! So FUN!

PIPE MISHAP!
In the throws of one of our busiest days, we had all of my sisters and their kids, and my uncle and grandma over, we discovered we had a broken pipe in the basement ceiling. There was water down the whole wall in the little boys room.

Luckily Ricky is the bomb and is very handy. As you can see, he had to cut out the wall and the ceiling to find the source of the leak which was above the heater vent in about the worst place possible. He was able to cut out the pipe that was broken and put a new one in! Oh this was such a mess!

One day we took the kids down to the dinosaur museum at BYU. We had to cross the street to go and see the statue of the cougar. The kids thought it was pretty cool, which it really is!

I hate when pictures load out of order! This was our last horrah with Molly here. All four of us, husbands, kids and grandma Murl went to Chuck-A-Rama for lunch. We always go there when grandma is in town. As you can imagine, it was pandimonium! We let all the little's sit at this table and they had the time of their lives eating on their own!

This is a random shot of Cooper, Marlee and Brad. They had so much fun while the older kids were at school. Cooper had Brad had a grand old time doing "boy" stuff!

Two beautiful boys! We also loved getting to know Cooper this trip. We only see Molly once or twice a year so we don't know her little two as well and Marlee and Cooper are so much fun! I'm so glad they came to visit!!